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F< r this -section.?Ra?n probably tidni^ht. and tomorrow ''' ttdjjjuoj i ' ESTABLISHED 17M. OUwt Daily Newspaper la the Unt* -States and Best Advertis ing Mediurit in Northern Virginia. * i *i ? ? I ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1919. VOL. CXXXV? No.'2o3. UN BOLTS "i; CONFERENCE Unions Are Defeated in The Final Vote?Future Undecided GOMPERS'S SETBACK Right of Bargaining Beaten, There"is Nothing to Be Gained by Confer ence Says Leader. The delegates to the labor group! walked out of the Industrial Confer ence last night after a "last-stand" resolution recognizing the right to or ganize a<nd to bargain collectively was i voted down by the employer group. The public group voted with labor for the resolution, but It was defeated under the group rule.. Despite the secession of the labor group, Chairman Lane refused to consider the conference as ended: He announced la^t night that tftie con ference would go on and said that the President would probably be consulted regarding further procedure. While there are many who held that the defection of the labor group makes ft useless for the conference to go ont, the employer grotto announced th'at it is ready to proceed to the for mation of a complete program for in dustrial adjustment. The public group announced that it woul'd proceed with the prepara tion of a report to the President. Mjemlber Spargo of this .group in troduced at the lbst minute a reso- . luition to prepare the way for appoint merit of a committee to work out a co-ordinated program for dealing with the industrial situation. \ Chairman Samuel Gompers of the laibor group, sang the swan song, to quote hrs expression of the labor group's partioipance in the confer ence. He began his lasft speech by reading the resolution on which the labor delegates went down to final defeat. FREDERICKSBURG NORMAL The local members of the alumni association of the- city and Spotsyl vania County have organized quite an interesting chapter known . as the 'Home Chapter." The object of the chapter is to b^gm'"an- emtownment find to assist* some .wprt'hy girl in continuing her education, to increase the social life of the girls, and' to biypg. them closer together. Meetings are held once a months'The Mother Association would urge . that other communities in which there is a justi fiable number of girls, got busy and organize chapters. , The school opened its doors this year with the dormitories filled to their capacity, and nvany on the wait ing list. The president A. B. Chand ler', jr-i made the.-opening address in which he set forth his ideals for the school. The school this year has es tablished a faculty home in which many members of the faculty reside, in the deligh/trful mansion which was the former home of ex-^pres.ident Rus sell The home life of the school this year will be under a joint commit tee of the student government and a faculty committee. ? ? ? 1 ' WARSHIPS STRIKE MINES London, Oct. 23.?Three hundred and fifty lives were lost when two Bolshevik cruisers were sunk off1 Kronstadt said a Central News dis patch from Helsingfors today. The dispatch says: "The Bolshe viks report that two cruisers were logt off Krbntftadt when khey ran into nines. Three hundred a|d fifty per ished." (The British admiralty announced the sinking of two Bolshevik war ships near Kronstadt yesterday.) STOCKHOLDERS MEETING i The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Howard Lumber Com pany, Incorporated, will be held at' its principal office, ill South Fair fax street, Alexandria, Virginia, at 11 i o'clock A. 'M., October 27th, 1919. By order of the Board of Di rectors. Howard Lumber Company, Incorpo rated. Josiah Howard, President. 241-15t. Jay P. Felt, Secretary. DEEDS RECORDED Mine Pieces ictf Property Just Trans ferred Deeds of transfer for nine pieces of property today were placed on record in the office of the cler.k of the court as follows: Mrs. Robert F. Green to Mrs. Ida V and George Wise, house and lets 11 and 12, block 12. section 2, Rosemont; Benjamin W. Puffin and others to Andrew Grady, sr.. and wife house and let northeast corner cf Queen and Payne streets; Geneitel Realty Corporation to Carliton E. Mas sey house and lot southeast corner of Lee and Prince streets; Carroll Pierce and James R. Caton, trustees, to Mrs. Henrietta W. Bales lots 16 ami 18 in block 18, section 3, Rosemont; Mrs. Mary Field to Geonge T. Finnell ami wife house and lot on the north side J'of Prince between Lee and Union i streets ; Miss Fanny Dixon to Walter j L. Loftin house and lot 202 ^outh Pitt street; Mrs. Elizabeth E. M. Fair to Morris Baumgarten and wife house* and lot on west side of Lee between Wolfe and Wilkes streets; Thomas W. McDermott to Frank Sheppard house and lot 1213 Queen street; William Baader to Edward W. Dixon house 402 1-2 South Royal St. SAVING SOCIETIES ORGANIZE. Fqr Public and Private Scliolrls? Idea, js to Teach Thrift ?Clarence R. Afh-alt. of Cherrydale, chairman of the Government Sav ing Organization for this locality, has received -copies of letters writ ten 'by Governor Westimorelan'd Da vis and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Harris HaH, giving high endorsement to tihe plan of the United States Treasury Department under wlhich savings societies ai'e being organized in the .public and private schools of Ifhis district ;Both Governor Davis and Super intendent Hart also favor the incor poration of a practical course in thrift in the schools. Governor Da vis -saying that in his opinion the gdnei+al teaching of the saving principal in the st'hcoPs of Vi?*ginia" would be a splendid thing." Superintendent Hart considers it "absolutely essentially to teach children Uhnift." His letter, as was that of Governor Davis, was writ ten to Will.ia'm R. Timimons, direc tor of the Educational Department .of the War Loan Organization, whioh has headquarters' in Rich mond. Mr. Tinvmons has a number cf copies of-, text books on thrift wlhieh he. will be giad to mail, he ,says! "without cost to" any teacher .desiring ,'tihem.-. The lessons are graded for elementary schools, hin:h schools and for institute work. JUNIOR ORDER MECHANICS State Council, Meeting at Lynchburg. Select- Officers for the Year Lyrtchlburg, Va, Oct 23?'The Sta'te Council. Jr. 0. U. A. M., eltctcd of ficers yesterday afternoon, adopted resolutions and selected Charlottes ville for the place of the meeting next, year The new officers: State councilor, Rev. J. E. de Gaf ferellv, Newport News. State vice-councilor. W. Herman Walker. Fredericksburg. State council treasurer, A. L. Brad ley, Richmond. State council conductor, W. J. Las si'ter, Norfolk. State council warden. J. D. Smith. Newport News. State council inside sentinel. Geo. W. Baxter, Petersburg. State council outside sentinel, How ard Smoot, Bal'lston. Trustees, 0. A. Bochen, Richmond; C. J. Ashworth, Wen on da and Dr J. L Mears, Richmond. I Charlottesville won the place for the next meeting over Gordonsville. Newport News and-?Danville. The report of the secretary showed a membership of 1S.(>(?2, with 456 honorary members. Fish Day tomorrow! White perch, rock fish. Potomac bass, salt water 'Taylors, steak pollock, blue fish. Jerse'y trout. Oysters 50 cents quart dry measure. Sanitary Fish Market. Staill No. 2. Phone 735. Open till 6 p. m. | J. H. Robinson. Proprietor. 253-lp NOTICE We have opened an oyster shop at the southeast corner of Alfred and Gibbon streets, for the sale of oysters, both wholesale and retail. .Chesapeake Bay standard select ojipters. Give us a trial and be convinced. H. M. Struder and Co. 252<-3p. . * , The Sum of $2,857.25 Has Been Collected Thus Far DRIVE "ENDS' FRIDAY Committee Appeals to all Citizens Who Have Not Yet Given to I)o So at Once. | The Jewish War Relief Campaign | j will end tomorrow nigrht. Thus far a | j total of $2,857.25 has been collected j ; by the local committee. Alexandria's j allotment is $5,000. This city, ; therefore, is .$2,857.85 behind in its i collectfo-n in this dirve. An appeal is made by the committee to all citizens who have not yet con tributed to the cause to send in their donations to either M. Ruben, B. Weil, or J. T. Preston, secretary of the Chamiber of Commerce. Inasmuch as the drive ends tomor row night the committee expresses the hope tha't all citizens who ca'n afford it will be represented on the list of coniiributons to this cause. i Like the wolves that prowl in their . own native forests, the famished children of Poland, orphans of war, hunt in packs in city street* for chance scraps of food. ?nd when found I like wolves fight over crusts and i crumbs. American Jewish Relief | agents whose work camries them into < the terrible slums of the Poiish cit- 1 ies tell heart-rending tales of the i uttemjpts of tfhese chili!ren to delay i what seem to be inevitable death i from hunger. ? "I 'happened to visit an orphnage" one worker state;! recently to Moe Levy, Virginia Chairman of the War Relief Campaign, "a't a time when they were distributing food among \ the children. There had been nothing i to eat at this home for a fu-ll day. j and the inmates of the orphanage : were weak from hunger and over- i crowding. Hut even before tihe cart with the suplies arrived word spread \ among the starving street children i that bread was to be distributed. What I i I saw stopped the blood in my veins. i Hundreds of thc-se homeless and fam- j ished urchins crowded the street. They collected on the steps and crept into ( the corridors of ^he buiWiners. At the i beginning they only looked on; then i they began to bee. and finally One snatched at the crust that a r.iven ous child was eating. With a rush, all the street children were within the i room, clawing at the food and fight- I ire with their teeth and nails?rot loudly, but iwith grim and sfllent de termination. The teachers were fore- i e l to drive off the pack that their | ; Home orphans might not lose the last ( bit of their food." "One needs a heart of steel to see such sights as this." The American Jewish Relief Com mittee has already sent millions of dollars worth of food to this and other countries in a like situation. It is ask ing $35,000,000 of the country to con tinue its work through another year. TO BE AT CONFERENCE Berlin, Oct. 23.?The German and Austrian governments, it is learned have decided to send delegates to the Washington Labor Conference, inas much as the Supreme Council of the Allies has recommended their admit tance as fully qualified members. The delegates of the two nations probably -will leave "together for Washington at the end of this week. Havana, Oct. 23.?Dr. C-arrera Jus tiz and Dr. Enrique Hernandez Car taya have been named to represent Cuba in the International Labor Con ference to be held in Washington October 20. NOTICE The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Alexandria Water Company will be held at the office of the eonvpanyv Monday, Novem ber 3rd, 1919, at 10 o'clock a. -m. 239-23t. George Uhler, Secretary. announcement The Mount Vernon Ice Cream Parlors will shortly -open-at 1102 King street, where they will.served not only ice cream ibut .also a ? fine line of candies and cigars. ?? 251-6c. James PrioVolos, MASONIC FUNCTION (TONIGHT Grand Master of Oklahoma and Dele gation Will Confer Degree Work Here :; By permission of grand master Sol Cutchins of Virginia the grand master of Oklahoma and a delegation from that jurisdiction, including the deputy grand master and several other members of the grand lodge, will con fer the onaster mason degree in Alex andria-Washington l.odge this even ing. The work will be exemplified ac cording to the Oklahoma "ritual ami will no doubt, be not only interesting but instructive to the local frater nity. x The delegation that will confer the degree is attending the Scottish Rite meeting in Washington. The Oklahoma grand lodge at its last annual communication appropriat ed $5,000 to the Geo. Washington j Masonic Memorial Association. This j function should attract a large at-[ tendance. The candidate was elected in Okla- j homa and since his election moved to! Alexandria where he is now employed, j HORSE BURNT ON EVE OK RACE Baltimore, Oct. 2.1.?Upon the stage when stories of the turf are enacted, there usually is a heavy man who "dopes" the favorites for financial gain or spite, but not so often do such cases come to light on real race tracks Just now Capt. Ral Parr is search ing for the person who put his horse, I Esquimau, out of commission. Early yesterday it was discovered by his trainer, Billy Garrtb. that sonve one had entered the stall of this promising three-year-old at Laurel and poured some sort of blistering liquid upon the left legs sf the 'um.p ?r, thereby rendering him useless as a racer for several weeks at least, and net-haps for the remainder of the sea son. LABOR ISSUES John P. Fitzpatrlek, chairman of :he strike committee, announces the ?ailroad brotherhoods have sanctioned a walkout of envployes about the steel plants in sympathy with the strikers. Prevention by arbitration of the A-alk-out of 500.000 bituminous coal nincrs, called for November 1/seems mpossible through Secretary Wilson ivill make another attempt today t'i settle the dispute. A new fight by employes for high er wages and hotter working condi tions is threatened with the prospect of a new crisis before tho Govern ment surrenders control of tlv roads. All ships will be operated today even if soldiers are required to man them, it was announced last night. Fifteen thousand men remain idle. Walker D. Ilines succeeded in get ting the strikers to return today on a promise of consideration of their case November 4. EVA NG EL I STIC SERVICES Rev. H. I. Stewart of Washington Will Be at First Baptist Church Next Week Rev. Howard I. Stewart, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Washing ton. D. C.. will open evangelistic ser vices nert week at the First Baptist Church, this city. There/will be preach irvg each night. The opening service will be held Sunday night Rev. Mr. Stewart is re garded as forceful speaker and large congregations attend his services in Washington. Preparatory sen-ices for the evan gel is-tic program are being held this week at night in the First Baptist Church. The service tomorrow r.:gb' will consist entirely of pi'ayers and no Speaking. An invitation is extended to mem bers of all of the churches in the city to attend the services. ANNUAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the1 annual meeting of stockholders of the Washington Safe Deposit Com pany Incorporated, will be held at the office of the company. No. 111 South Fairfax street, Alexandria. 'Virginia, on Tuesday, November 4. 1019, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of electing a board of direc tors for the ensuing ye*ar and for the transaction of such other busi ness as "may properly come before said meeting John C. Schroder, Assistant Secty. 250-2wks. I Coroner's Jury Fails to Fix j Responsibility For Miss Struder's Death i 'witnesses are heard I Testified Woman Walked in Front of Car?Funeral at Sharon Chapel To morrow. A coroner's .fury, summoned by Dr. T M. Jones, which met yester day afternoon at Wheatley's mort uary cWape'l to investigate the cir cumstances attending the death otf Miiss Julia Delia Struder, who died from injuries sustained by being struck by a northbound freight car ever the Washington-Virgihia Rail way giave a verdict to the effect that she died at the Alexandria Hospital October 22 at about i> a. m., from injuries sustained by beiivy struck by a'n electric freight train wlhile near St. Elmo at about (5:45 p. m., October 21. The jury did not, 'however, fix the responsibility. (Edward- V. Grove, motor man of the freight, was the principal wit ness. At the time of the accident he testified he was going down grade and .his car wtos traveling at about twelve miles an hour. As he approached the abutment at tlhafc place the young woman walked in front of the train he said 'and she was struck, her head evijlentally striking llhe rail of the j/\j?innin<r Others .to testify wil 1H. Ciark Mar^hall. colored, who isM gloved on tlhe work train an A t>mas 'IVavers, claim a front for^B t^rond. The .funeral of Miss S^Rrvj? will ,t:ake place at l> o'clock^? um?v afternoon from Sharon \^opal Chapel, Fairfax' count^^^i. vices wrll be conflicted by Re^^ftv. V A. Wallis, of the KpisCaj^Mj^ logi call Semirtary. Burial v\\ the .cemetery at that pIn^^L*>< GIVEN THIRTY THIRD?0J?KKE William Lewis Allen and Frank W. Latham Honored by Scottish Rite Masons. Two; Alexandrians were honored last night when the thirty-three de cree of the order (honorary) was. conferred on t.hem by Suprefme Couwcil of Scottish Kite M'asor.s at the temple' house in Washington. They are William Lewis Allen and Frank W. Latham. In addition to the forgoing four other Virginians also receive;! this de irrce la'st night. They are: James G. Hankins. R. C. Lewis, Jr.. William S Pel tit. M Abraham Syc\\ <>f Richmond. LABOR CASTS DIE TO FIGH T (? President' Wilson will not abandon his efforts to briny capital and labor together. He r prepared to go to the utter most Iirr.it to avert industrial wui Within a short tim? new efforts *.vd. be made to repair the breach made by the break-up of the present Na tional Industrial Conference. When Chairman Baruclr and the other members of the public group made a report to him, with recom mendations >it is expected he wilP take immediate stops either to reas ser.'t '" the conference on a new basis or to assert the strong arm of the Government to stay a national crisis. THIRD BABY KILLED Pneumonia Sets in as Infant is Be ing Taken to Chicago Hospital Chicago, Oct. 23.?Baby Teddy Har rington, Detroit's third child victim of bichloride of mercury, died shortly be fore midnight at Columbus Hospital. Pneumonia set in while the baby was en route from Detroit to Chicago for treatment, "making his recovery im possible. GRASSHOPPER INVAS!ON Oklahoma City, Okla. Oct. 23.? Graseshopper tales of Kansas were recalled here one day recently .vher. Grand avenue and many streets south were literally swarming with 'hop pers." The entire downtwoh sectior seemed to. be "on the hop." GOVERNMENT LIME FOR FARM ERS! . At Hopewell the (Government has in storage a considerable quantity of lime whidh is being offered at a low price for the benefit of the farmers of Virginia for "agricultu ral purposes. An analysis of the lime by the State Agriculture Conir ntissioner shows over 80 per ct-nt calcium oxide and 1 per cent mag nesium, indicating its grade to be considerably /higher than usu:tl com mercial grades. The Virginia State Agriculture Department Rihmond, is co-operat ing with tlhe Philadelphia Ord nance Office that the lime may be sold directly to farmers. Lime is one of ,the foundation stones of soil fertility. Ain unusual opportunity is open to secure agricultural lime Terni^ of sale. $5.50 per ton aboard cars and $'>..".0 per ton aboard bar ges Hopewell. Virginia. Shipped, 0*1 i 1 y in car lots. :J5 to 40 tons per car. Certified check, payable to. Deputy Zone Finance Officer. must acco'mpany all orders. Address, State ?Comimissiuner of Agriculture, Richmond, or Salvage Representa tive. Penniman, Virginia, or J. R. Hutciheson, State Extension Ser vice. Blacksburg, Virginia. PROMISE HOT FIGHT The ten Republicans in control of the Senate Foreign Relations ('crn mittee planned to add several rest r vations today to the ten they adopt ed yesterday, with Senator Shields, Democrat, of Tennessee, voting w'th them. Renewed opposition to the major ity reservations was promised by Senator Hitchcock, the Administra tion leader an'd ranking Demcratic member of the committee, who is being supported by the fivo other Ad ministration Senators on it. Hitchcock declared the Administra tion f< rccs in the Senate would never agree to the reservations as adopted by the committee. IN MEMORMM Tn memory of our dear s<n. Edward I aycock. ,who died on" year ago today. October 10IS. Ob wake ;h?m rot. sweet spirit. 'o suffer again. .Ho slumbers so soundly, oh ' t him sleep on. His sickness is endnd. this trouble? are gone. ?Think how he suffered. yet in all his pain. ?So God in ihis mercy sent low. from above. An angel tlin,t whispered a mes sage of love Gmne but not forgotten In this world below. Thy memory is ju<t as fresh: tod As it was a year ago. ,25:Mp. P?y his parents In loving remembrance of our dearly beloved brother. Edwarl Layccck, who loft lis one year air - today, October 2:!. 1018. | He >is gone but was so young and fair, He slumbers sweet and knows n-? care. His heart was true, Ihis life wa'? young, Yet not our will, but God's be done. His face, our min is will always s< ?? Forirotten he will never be. Gone in the best/of his youth. Right in manhood's bloom. I Torn from hearts that loved him ! To sleep in a silent tomb/ 253-1 p Loving sisters In loving 'meinory of our flailing 'boy. Frankie. Kraft, who departed this life six months ago tc lay. April 2'!. 1919. Dra(lb hfa* robbed us of our darling ?bov. Of the one we loved so well; Taken him from this world of sor row. Safely home with him to dwe'J!. When I saw my darling boy Whom I tonded with such are. Slowly fading from my presence How my aching heart dps paired. When the evening shades are Eith er ing And we sit all alone In our heart there comes a longing If our Frankie could only come home. '! 25.1-1 p. Mamma and daddv. ! ' Norfolk salt water Oysters and : Hampton Bar clams Jacob Brill, j foot of King Street., 227-tf PRICE ONE CENT HAPPENINGS ABOUT ; The weekly prayer meet ing at Anne Lee Memorial wiBl lie held Friday af ternoon at 3 o'clock. A marriage license was issued *1 Washington yesterday to George F. Feaganes and Bertie E. Wheaton. botlh of Alexandria. Therd will he a! meetilng of the American Women's Leg i or. tonight in the ('hamibec of Commerce. A'H members are urged to be present. .Mrs. C>. Wood will leave Satur day for Newport News. Va.. wliere she will visit her daughter. Mrs. George Hardy, with whom she will spend two weeks. District Deputy William P. Woolls and Warden Thomas Priest 'have returned from Petersburg, Va., where they installed the newly elected officers of Petersburg Coun cil. Knights of Columbus. ?Mis. IVters, who has beeli em ployed as typist at the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation for st*ve-. ral months has resigned her posi tion having been cabled to her home in Southwest Virginia. Potomac Pish Company has just ?received a lot of Jersey fish, but ter fish, Jersey trout, blue fish, Taylor fNh. flounders. Norfolk spots, catfish, yellow and white, perch, large and small rock, stake cod. Potomac bass, Norfolk and river oysters by the measure, also best fried oysters in the city C. H. Zimmerman. Proprietor. 253-lp A sneak thief yesterday morning entered the residence of Mrs. Julian T. Burke, Jr.. Rosemont. and stole from a ha!! rock in cash, a gold wrist watch and two gold neck laces. Mrs. Burke had hift the arti cles on the rack in-tending to take fchem that day to a jeweler for re pairs. A colored man it is thought entered the front door and made away with the goods. The police have a description of Uhe suspect. According to the report of the Stati' Registrar of the Bureau ofj. Vita! Statistics, during the yeiar' 1!?1S there were 45.271 marriages celebrated in Vitrginia. Durfng tjhe same year tlieer were 8.096 divor ces. Among the letters received by \\ S. (ireenawav. Clerk of the Corjyoratioi! Court, this mornSng was one from a correspondent who asked this significant question: ''Can a couple who are under age, il though married, come to your city and have their hairs dissolved." Last Monday a mischieK'ious boy to ok ptks<essijjn of an automobile which was parked at the main gate of the plant ivf the Virginia Ship building Corporation. He proceed ed north up Lee street, and in fueling into Fairfax street, collided with a. tree, seriously damaging the machine. Me then jumped nut and ma>Le his escape. He left his jack et in the car. On Tuesday two boys eiitnred another auto at the same j^lace 'and started up Lee street with the machine. They pro '.-ended a short distance wh<Jn th^V ??topped Jhe car and jumped out. They. -too. succeeded in making their escape. The State Corporation Commis sion has granted a charter to the Interstate Motor Supply Company, Incorporated. Alexandria Court house. Va. Capital: Maximum, $50,000; minimum, $.'1,0000: Officers W. H. Trolinger, president; John W. Price, secretary and S. W, Baldwin, all of Washington. D. C. Objects; to deal in automobiles and automobile accessories. The commission has also granted an amendment to the charter of the Dulin and -Martin Company, Alex andria. Va. William H. Martin president, and T. C. Dulin, secre tary. Enlarging its powers, chang ing the amount of real estate it rr(ay hold and giving location of its business. NOTICE ? Persons desiring to secure a panorama ? picture of the Sunday j School parade, take'n in Christ I Church yard, call on M, Leeb. pho I tcjgrapher, 416 King street. 2ol-3p